# Spline Sans font

> A space-saving grotesque built for interfaces and checkout flows, variable from Light to Bold.

Spline Sans is a grotesque sans serif designed by Eben Sorkin and Mirko Velimirović for interfaces, checkout processes and paragraphs of text. Spline Sans is a variable font with a weight axis from Light 300 to Bold 700, five named weights and 510 Latin and Latin Extended glyphs. It is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

## Facts

- Classification: [Sans Serif](https://trendhub.net/fonts/category/sans-serif)
- Designed by: Eben Sorkin, Mirko Velimirović
- License: SIL Open Font License 1.1 (https://openfontlicense.org/open-font-license-official-text/)
- Styles: 5 (Light 300, Regular 400, Medium 500, SemiBold 600, Bold 700)
- Variable font: Yes (wght 300–700)
- Glyphs: 510
- Character sets: latin, latin-ext
- Last updated: 2025-09-10
- Official source: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Spline+Sans
- Page: https://trendhub.net/fonts/spline-sans
- Tagged for: Body text, Interfaces, Branding

## About Spline Sans

Spline Sans is a grotesque sans serif made for product interfaces. It saves horizontal space by narrowing the usual grotesque proportions, and its restrained tone is broken by small notches the designers call thorn traps, which become visible as the type gets larger. In the specimen the letters are plain and upright, with a tall lowercase and flat, horizontal stroke endings. The Spline Team initiated the typeface, and Eben Sorkin and Mirko Velimirović designed it; the official notes also credit Faride Mereb for project management, Gonçalo Teixeira for testing and design feedback and Alejandro León for the concept. Spline Sans is a variable font with a weight axis from 300 to 700 and five named weights, without italics. Its 510 glyphs cover the Latin and Latin Extended subsets. Sorkin Type is named as manufacturer.

## License

SIL Open Font License 1.1. Copyright 2021 The Spline Sans Project Authors (https://github.com/SorkinType/SplineSans)

Allowed:
- Use the fonts in personal and commercial work, in print, on the web and in apps.
- Modify the fonts and build new versions from them.
- Redistribute the fonts, on their own or bundled with software, as long as the license text and copyright notice go with them.

Conditions:
- The fonts cannot be sold by themselves.
- A modified version must stay under the same license and cannot use a Reserved Font Name without the copyright holder's permission.
- The authors' names cannot be used to promote a modified version without permission.

Summary only, not legal advice. Full text: https://openfontlicense.org/open-font-license-official-text/

## Where it works

- **Checkout and payment forms**: The family was purpose-built for checkout processes: narrowed proportions fit field labels, amounts and error messages into tight layouts.
- **App interfaces**: Five weights from Light to Bold cover labels, buttons and headings, and the variable axis allows in-between values.
- **Paragraph text in products**: Plain grotesque shapes and a tall lowercase carry help pages and descriptions.
- **Large product headlines**: At display sizes the thorn traps appear at the joins and give titles a detail that small text hides.

## Things to know

- **No italics**: Spline Sans has five upright named weights. The download is one variable file with a weight axis only.
- **Latin only**: The fonts contain Latin and Latin Extended subsets; no Cyrillic or Greek subset is present.
- **Traps show only when large**: The notches are subtle at text sizes and are meant to appear as the size increases.

## FAQs

### Is Spline Sans free for commercial use?

Yes. Spline Sans is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which allows personal and commercial use, modification and redistribution. The fonts cannot be sold on their own, and modified versions stay under the same license.

### Who designed Spline Sans?

Spline Sans was designed by Eben Sorkin and Mirko Velimirović. It was initiated by the Spline Team, and Sorkin Type is named as manufacturer.

### How many weights does Spline Sans have?

Spline Sans has five named weights: Light, Regular, Medium, SemiBold and Bold. Any value from 300 to 700 can be set on the weight axis.

### Is Spline Sans a variable font?

Yes. Spline Sans is a variable font with a weight axis from 300 to 700. It has no italic.

### Which languages does Spline Sans support?

Spline Sans includes the letters needed for English and Western, Central and Eastern European languages written in Latin script, such as German, French, Polish, Czech, Hungarian and Turkish.

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Source: https://trendhub.net/fonts/spline-sans (trendhub)